Officer Wilson’s Address

His home is nothing to write about.

“Palin, Amid Criticism, Stays in Electronic Comfort Zone,” read the headline of a New York Times news story Jan. 11, 2011. Yesterday’s post by the Times’s “public editor,” Margaret Sullivan, might have been titled “Paper, Amid Criticism, Stays in Comfort Zone.” The actual title was even more abstruse: “Should The Times Have ‘Left It Out’—and What, Exactly, Was ‘It’?”

The former headline, in case you’ve forgotten, referred to a campaign document produced by SarahPAC, the Alaska ex-governor’s political action committee, that...